Cocaine use in France doubles as workplace pressures drive demand
www.rfi.fr
The number of cocaine users in France has nearly doubled to 1.1 million, with employees increasingly using the drug to cope with workplace pressures, a government report revealed on Wednesday.

The number of cocaine users in France has nearly doubled to 1.1 million, with employees increasingly using the drug to cope with workplace pressures, a government report revealed on Wednesday.

  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    221·
    3 hours ago

    I dont underatand people who use coke to get things done. I never got jack shit done on coke, unless you count talking a mile a minute and drinking a lot. Adderall on the other hand, I work my ass off on Adderall.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    16·
    4 hours ago

    The report noted changing attitudes have contributed to cocaine’s spread, with the drug now being seen as more familiar and less dangerous than two decades ago.

    And yet, they won’t vote for legalisation. Big brain moments.

    • loutr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      3 hours ago

      Nah, here in France we’ve been using the same revolutionary approach to drugs for decades now: be tougher on crime. We’re more and more repressive, while usage keeps climbing. Each new interior minister scoffs at the idea of legalization, explaining instead that his predecessors failed because they just weren’t tough enough.

  • limonfiesta@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 hours ago

    I can understand executives, or people in finance, being able to not just justify their use of cocaine on the job, but more importantly, be able to afford it.

    Unless cocaine prices have come down exponentially in the last decade, I can’t imagine being a shift worker and relying on cocaine to get through the day.

    I’m going to call bullshit on this reporting. I would have believed that if they just said cocaine use has gone up, or that recreational use outside of work has risen.

    If cocaine was dirt cheap, meth wasn’t cheap, or if it was hard to get an amphetamine prescription, I would be more willing to accept this reporting.

    But as it stands, cocaine isn’t cheap, meth is, and prescription amphetamines are more common then ever.